Liudmyla Ye Kozeko

M.G.Kholodny Botany Institute · Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of exogenous proline on the growth, biochemical responses, and plant recovery of drought-stressed oilseed rape plants after renewed irrigation. The experiment was conducted under controlled laboratory conditions. After 21 days of cultivation, 3–4 leaf stage seedlings were sprayed with proline (1 mM)...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of exogenous proline on growth, biochemical responses, and plant recovery of drought-stressed oilseed rape plants after renewed irrigation. The experiment was conducted under controlled laboratory conditions. After 21 days of cultivation, 3-4 leaf stage seedlings were sprayed with proline (1 mM), th...

Heat shock protein AtHSP90–2 is one of the three constitutive cytosolic HSP90s of Arabidopsis thaliana, which are highly homologous and show mild expression activation in response to stressful impacts. To characterize the functioning of AtHSP90–2, we have analyzed tissue-specificity of its expression during seedling development using a DsG transgen...

In order to increase plants tolerance to drought, the idea of treating them with stress-protecting compounds exogenously is being considered. In this study, we aimed to evaluate and compare the impact of exogenous calcium, proline, and plant probiotics on the response of winter wheat to drought stress. The research was carried out under controlled...

Considering global warming, it is of critical interest to understand in detail how plants withstand elevated temperatures and drought. Heat shock proteins (HSP) are involved in cellular response to both factors. HSP70 and HSP90 are multigene families in plants that function as molecular chaperones throughout the organism's tolerance range. However,...

Mitochondrial heat shock proteins of HSP70 family support protein homeostasis in mitochondria under normal and stress conditions. They provide folding and complex assembly of proteins encoded by mitochondrial genome, as well as import of cytosolic proteins to mitochondria, their folding and protection against aggregation. There are reports about or...

Objective Predicting the response of plants to global climate changes, including not only warming but also changes in rainfall and subsequent water availability, is one of the most significant scientific problems this centure. We performed a comparative study of certain micromorpological, physiological and molecular traits of widespread, closely r...

The functions of HSP90 chaperones in the protein-folding system and regulation of specific substrates affecting multiple signal pathways and cellular processes were considered. The triple role of HSP90 in stress was described: binding damaged proteins and directing them for refolding or degradation, regulation of the heat-shock gene induction, and...

Clinorotation used to simulate microgravity effects in ground-based experiments is considered as a mild stress factor for plants. We have assumed that it might influence the plant tolerance to other stressful factors. To test this, Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings were grown on a horizontal clinostat (2 rpm) or under stationary conditions (control),...

To survive and reproduce under the conditions of limited oxygen supply, plants develop morphological and biochemical features that are either constitutive or induced by flooding. We performed a comparative study of the root cortex structure and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) synthesis in widespread aerial-aquatic Sium latifolium and terrestrial S. sis...

Tolerance ranges and heat shock protein HSP70 synthesis pattern in Malva sylvestris ‘Krasavka' and M. pulchella 'Sylva' were analyzed under high temperature, soil flooding and drought. Juvenile plants of the species showed close tolerance ranges; at that, M. sylvestris was some more thermotolerant and more sensitive to flooding, comparatively to M....

The heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is required for the maturation and conformational regulation of many regulatory proteins affecting morphogenetic pathways and stress tolerance. The purpose of this work is to disclose a role of HSP90 in radioresistance of seeds. Arabidopsis thaliana (Ler) seeds were exposed to γ-ray irradiation with doses of 0.1-1...

The influence of geldanamycin (GA), which is a specific inhibitor of heat shock protein Hsp90 activities, on synthesis of Hsp70 and Hsp90 and thermotolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings has been studied. Incubation of seedlings with GA was shown to induce synthesis of these stress proteins under normal conditions. Treatment of seeds with the...

The influence of geldanamycin (GA), a specific inhibitor of heat-shock protein Hsp90, on the synthesis of Hsp70 and Hsp90 and thermotolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings has been studied. Incubation of seedlings with GA under normal conditions induced synthesis of these stress proteins. Treatment of seeds with the Hsp90 inhibitor resulted in...

The influence of geldanamycin (GDA)—an inhibitor of Hsp90 chaperones—on the growth and morphogenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings was studied. It was shown that the treatment of seeds Col with the inhibitor resulted in a dose-dependent increase in the variability of seedling growth rates and phenotypes. GDA treatment of genetic polymorphic see...

Genetic material of terrestrial organisms can be considerably injured by cosmic rays and UV-radiation in the space environment. Organisms onboard are also exposed to the entire complex of negative physical factors which can generate genetic variations and affect morphogenesis. However, species phenotypes must be robust to genetic variation, requiri...

The review presents data on diversity, structure, functions and gene expression of the high conserved family of heat shock proteins 90 kDa (Hsp90). They are specialized molecular chaperones that fulfill the folding, maintenance of structural integrity and conformational regulation of a subset of proteins involved in important cellular processes, su...

Exposure to hypergravity induces significant changes in gene expression of plants which are indicative of stress conditions. A substantial part of the general stress response is up-regulation of heat shock proteins (Hsp) which function as molecular chaperones. The objective of this research was to test the possible changes in the Hsp70 and Hsp90 le...

A coordinated plant response to simulated microgravity (clinorotation) and heat stress was analyzed. 5-d pea seedlings grown on a horizontal clinostat or in the stationary conditions were exposed to different heat treatments (mild, severe and severe after pretreatment). Temperature-dependent quantitative changes in the heat stress response were rev...

We have previously shown an increase in the Hsp70 and Hsp90 level in pea seedlings (cv. Damir) in response to clinorotation. In this work, Western-blot analysis of the Hsp70 and Hsp90 under clinorotation of different duration--from hours to days--was carried out with pea seedlings (cv. Intensive) with more intensive seed germination and seedling gr...

The possibility of heat-shock proteins' (HSP) participation in adaptation of living systems to microgravity is considered. The published information on HSP gene expression in cells under real and simulated microgravity is analysed. The necessity of detailed investigation on this problem is supposed.

Heat-shock proteins (HSP70 and HSP90) are present in plant cells under the normal growth conditions. At the same time, a variety of environmental disruptions results in their rapid synthesis as a substantial part of adaptation. HSP amounts can be indicative of a cellular stress level. Altered gravity (clinorotation) is unnatural for plants, so it m...

The influence of clinorotation (a method of partial simulation of the biological effects of microgravity under the earth conditions) on protein spectrum of pea seedlings (Pisum sativum L.) has been investigated. The germination of seeds under horizontal clinorotation (2 rpm) for 3 days resulted in disorientation and some slowing down of seedling gr...

We study the influence of altered gravity on actin expression in roots of Beta vulguris seedlings grown on the horizontal clinostat (2 rpm) from seed germination for three days. It is shown that the total actin quantity was not influenced. Three actin isoforms are revealed; a relative protein quantity of these isoforms was similar both in clinorota...

Microgravity is an abnormal and so stress factor for plants. Expression of known stress-related genes is appeared to implicate in the cell response to different kinds of stress. Heat shock proteins HSP70 and HSP90 are present in plant cells under the normal growth conditions and their quantity increases during stress. The effect of simulated microg...

Search for possible molecular genetic markers of three natural morpho-physiological forms of S. latifolium L. (one terrestrial and two aerial-aquatic forms) was carried out with three enzymatic systems - acid phosphatase, peroxidase and esterase. The results of an isozyme analysis of leaves indicate differentiation between these forms on seven isop...

The decline of embryo moisture content from approx. 82 to 53% in 1997 and 56% in 1998 in recalcitrant seeds of Acer saccharinum during maturation was accompanied by decreased mitotic activity in the meristems and an increase in the percentage of cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. DNA synthesis and mitosis in the root apex ceased at approx. 53...

In orthodox seeds the cell division within the embryo meristems arrests during maturation at embryo moisture content (MC) 65% to 47%, and the maturation completion and transition of seeds to quiescent state occurs at MC about 10%. The arrest of cycling happens asynchronously in different meristematic tissues during desiccation: first in shoot and t...